Easy Listening 6pm Tuesday 6th March You are invited to a talk by Stephen Jones
Sydney-based video artist Stephen Jones is in Auckland to install the work of Julie Rrap for turbulence: 3rd Auckland Triennial 2007 and will deliver a talk on his own work and research into the development of video art.
For many years he was the video-maker for pioneering electronic music group Severed Heads. He has been involved with the philosophical aspects of the nature of consciousness for almost longer than his involvement in video and has been producing The Brain Project web site since August 1996.
His current artistic work includes physical immersion installations based on the incunabula of computing and digital collage work (in print and in video) exploring the relationship of consciousness to the world. He also builds sensor-based interactive installation systems for artists and museums. He is currently writing a history of computer art in Australia.
Jones will talk about the development of video art, and look at the work that was done in Australia at the beginning, deriving from experimental film and covering some of the motivations people had for working with video as a potential new language system.”
Jones says, “Video has always been an interdisciplinary force, partaking of a wide range of approaches from the deconstruction of television to the documentation of performances to visual music to installation to narrative.”
He will also show several pieces of his own work, introducing the notion of visual music, and including his very early work with Severed Heads.
“One of the debates I am interested in following up is the shift in the nature of video art towards what I call ‘cinema art’ and I will draw out, through the above discussion, some of what I think are the differences, most of which can be found in the levels of feedback that video affords, which the cinema cannot.”
6pm Tuesday March 6th Auckland Art Gallery Auditorium, Free entryEasy Listening: Talks in Art and Culture is a collaborative project by ARTSPACE, Elam School of Fine Arts and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Stephen Jones’ talk is co-organised by the Centre for New Zealand Art Research and Discovery, National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, The University of Auckland and Auckland Art Gallery.
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